# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Buffett First Friday Lunch: Syria After Assad
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 12:30 pm – Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 01:45 pm
- **Event Description**: Wendy Pearlman presents "Syria After Assad."About this EventSyria After AssadJoin the Roberta Buffett Institute for a faculty research lunchtime talk series on the first Friday of every month. Faculty members give a half-hour talk intended for a broad, multidisciplinary audience of Northwestern students, faculty, and staff, followed by a conversational Q&A. Lunch is provided beginning at 12:15 p.m.January's Buffett First Friday Lunch will feature Wendy Pearlman, Jane Long Professor of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences.In this talk, Professor Pearlman will examine a pivotal turning point in Syria’s history: the collapse of the Assad regime after decades of dictatorship and war. Drawing from more than 500 interviews with displaced Syrians featured in her two recent books, We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled and The Home I Worked to Make, as well as observations from her recent trip to Syria, Pearlman will put the collapse of the Assad regime in a broader political context and consider what is at stake, in human terms.Please note that 720 University Place is not an ADA-accessible space. Increasing physical access to buildings and facilities is a goal of the University, but not all buildings and venues have been updated.Agenda?: 12:15 PMLunch begins?: 12:30 PMTalk begins
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Evanston
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 720 University Pl
- **lat**: 42.0510786
- **long**: -87.68072699999999
- **full address**: 720 University Pl, 720 University Place, Evanston, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 09 Jan, 2026 at 12:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 720 University Pl, 720 University Place, Evanston, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, fine-arts, trips-adventures
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